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CCU demo project of great interest to Teesside but must be seen in context

Posted by Matthew4pc on October 12, 2017

The announcement of 'up to £20m' being committed to a Carbon Capture and Utilisation demonstration programme is of course welcome and of great interest to Teesside but in terms of the scale of the task, it simply won’t cut it.

The size of the challenge is illustrated by the Conservative’s decision in 2015 to pull the rug from under their £1bn CCS programme.

A Labour Government will commit £2.25bn to develop the industry over the next Parliament and Teesside has a huge role to play and a massive opportunity.